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A coconut has been detained by Maldivian police on suspicion of vote-rigging in a key presidential election. The coconut, described as “young”, was found near a school that will be used as a polling station on Saturday on the remote Kaafu atoll, one of the hundreds of islands that comprise the Indian Ocean archipelago state.

The local Minivan news website reported that police “took the coconut into their possession” around 7.05am on Tuesday, after they received a complaint about the suspicious fruit near the school on the Guraidhoo Island, which lies 130 miles from the capital, Male, and has a population of around 2,000.

Any excuse

Coconut detained in Maldives over vote-rigging claims (Jason Burke, Guardian)

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A man in his 50s is in custody after a siege ended in Bailieborough, Co. Cavan shortly before 4am.

At around 7:30 pm on Thursday evening, the man is believed to have entered the Square Bar with a firearm. He ordered customers and staff to leave and barricaded himself in.

The discovery of a woman’s body in the Drumbannon estate on Thursday is being linked to the standoff. Garda negotiators and the Emergency Response Unit attended the scene.

Woman dead, man arrested in Bailieborough (Northern Sound)

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9677035325_5c160a6591_oJaplandic writres:

After all the banks admitting that they are using legal letters to satisfy the government’s criteria for long-term mortgage arrears modification – and the deafening silence from the Central Bank on this – I felt it was worth a quick recap on the last four years of Governor Patrick Honohan’s tenure.

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